API Penetration Testing

API usage and development has skyrocketed in recent years. Companies leverage APIs for their own systems, but they also build and publish them for other users to create their own unique applications. APIs come with their own security challenges, and should be evaluated independently.

ABOUT API PENETRATION TESTING

API penetration testing focuses on the security of APIs that your business exposes externally with supporting documentation. These are not APIs that are private or used internally in your own applications – we can cover those interfaces with a web application test – these are instead interfaces that you publish for users to implement in their own applications. We’ll take the same documentation you provide to users, construct API calls like they would, and then use them to discover security issues. API security has similar challenges to web application security but requires a different methodology to test thoroughly.

​Regardless of attack scenario, Rarefied always tests for security issues in a safe manner. We use proofs of concept to illustrate and leverage the issues we discover without damaging real users or data.

​If you wish to read further about our testing methodology, please click here.